Landscape With Classical Ruins Attributed To The Italian Scenographer Gaetano Ottani 1720 -1801

Oil on canvas depicting a landscape with classical ruins and popular figures. The paint has been relined and is in excellent condition. This work is due to the pictorial production of Gaetano Ottani (Bologna 1720 - Turin 1801), who, in addition to being an excellent painter, was an important tenor and a complex career as a decorator.
Gaetano Ottani (or Gaetano Bernardino Ottani) as a painter trained in Bologna, at the Clementine Academy. Inspired by the works of Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena, he commissioned decorations in the most important Piedmontese villas and palaces. He liked to depict landscapes with ruins, night visions of colonnades and marine inventions. His scenes are imaginative and rich in detail. Inspired by the taste for storytelling of Venetian origin, he creates elaborate and imposing architectures, classical or Gothic, which are enhanced by his highly developed talent as a scenographer, enough to make them go beyond the frame of the picture.

Beutiful original Salvador Rosa frame in black and ocher lacquer. 16 cm the section of the frame

The dimensions of the painting are 118 x 94. We guarantee the authenticity of our antiques gallery. Insured and traced shipping by negotiation with customers.

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